Russia: A Bit of Fear

A police wagon and a small truck drove up to
the back door of a Moscow courthouse last week, avoiding the knot of
students, the Western newsmen, and the two tearful wives who were
waiting at the front. Into the vehicles were bundled Authors Daniel
Sinyavsky, 40, and Yuli Daniel, 40, who were then whisked off to start
serving terms of seven and five years, respectively, in forced-labor
colonies. As expected, Sinyavsky and Daniel had been found guilty in a
stacked trial of "maliciously slandering" Russia in their storiessome
of which, oddly...